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$ 751 - $ 1500
Approached through Saba village, with its idyllic scenery of verdant rice fields and coconut groves, this beachfront property resting on landscaped gardens and facing the Indian Ocean's crashing surf is a spectacular sight. Contemporary Asian in design and lavishly appointed, the architectural grandeur of this six-bedroom property emphasises majestic dimensions to create an atmosphere of serenity and refinement.
At Villa Ylang Ylang, the pursuit of relaxation is amply catered for with a gym and infrared sauna, a top-notch theatre room and a series of intimate, luxurious outdoor spaces, while epicurean pursuits are more than satisfied by the kitchen, which produces fine dining par excellence.
Built in 2002 and lovingly designed and furnished by its owner, Villa Ylang Ylang hints of Versace and European sophistication: an elegant black and gold theme permeates throughout, while furnishings are fashioned from the finest imported fabrics. Food is served on gold plates, pool towels are by Chanel and several precious glass sculptures by the celebrated Japanese Artist Seiki ornament the villa. Guests have included international celebrities and royalty, discreetly served by the experienced yet charming villa staff.
Villa Ylang Ylang, however, is much, much more than a luxury beachside residence. The villa is named after the fragrant Ylang Ylang flower, renowned for bringing harmony, peace, warmth and passion, and its mantra is 'passionate serenity', which is exactly what you will find here. Radiating a positive and rejuvenating energy, Villa Ylang Ylang's wildly beautiful beachside setting is therapeutic in itself, but add the yoga and spa treatments, health-conscious food and calming chill-out zones and you have a magical retreat. Secluded and peaceful, you may not want to leave this destination villa, but should you venture out you are within easy driving distance of many of Bali's tourist attractions and natural splendours.
Location : Ketewel (This villa is ideally situated in a rural setting on Saba Beach in the province of Gianyar, northeast of Ketewel, and 20 minutes' drive from the historical village of Sanur. The Sanur Klungkung bypass, from Seminyak to Candidasa, positions the villa within easy driving distance of most of Bali's tourist attractions, spas, shops, restaurants and nightspots).
Bedroom : Ylang-Ylang (6 Bedrooms), Ylang-Ylang (4 Bedrooms)
2 Master bedrooms (king) with private terrace and plunge pool
2 Queen bedrooms (queen)
2 Junior bedrooms (twin)
Living, dining & kitchen
Studio/home theatre
Max occupancy: 14 adults
Total area of property: 1100sqm
Staff : 10 Staff (1 Supervisor, 4 Villa attendants, 1 Chef, 3 Security guards (24-hour) 1 Gardener & pool attendant)
Facilities : Private swimming pool (15m x 5m), Satellite TV, DVD, stereo system with CD players, IDD & local telephone calls, Broadband WiFi internet, iPod docking stations, Baby cot (1), Mini safes, Book library, DVD & CD library, Extra beds (2), Bale (2), Gym & sauna, BBQ
Services : Food & beverage, Housekeeping service, Special food & dietary requests, Large dining groups,Laundry, Tour & activity reservations & coordination Spa treatments Car & driver
Rates Ylang-Ylang(6 Bedrooms) 895++ 1275++ 1525++
Rates Ylang-Ylang (4 Bedrooms) 775++ 995++ 1175++
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At the international Bali Kite Festival held every July at Padang Galak Beach (just north of Sanur) a dazzling display of enormous colourful kites are flown competitively by teams from villages all around Bali.
If you wish to dine out, there is a choice of restaurants in Sanur, but our advice is to head up to Ubud (about 20km) where you'll find a much wider selection.
Le Mayeur Museum in Sanur (former home of Belgian artist Adrian Jean Le Mayeur) showcases the artist's work and gives visitors an insight into what it must have been like to be one of Bali's very first expats.
Surfing is good along the coast between Sanur and Ketewel – especially between November and May when the winds turn off-shore.
For a quick round of golf without having to travel to Tanah Lot or Nusa Dua, try the 9-hole course at the Bali Beach Hotel in Sanur.
Go horse riding along the black sandy beach at Saba Bay (suitable for beginners).
Sanur is a good place to learn or brush up on your scuba diving skills.


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The Book Thief: One Man's Opinion
3.3.2014 by Micah Kim
How do you please fans of a book which has been in the best seller list for 230 weeks, won 12 awards and have earned the love of many readers? Answer: you do not make a movie out of it.
Directed by Brian Percival, who is best (and only) known for Downton Abbey, this inevitable movie adaptation attempts to visualise the beautifully poetic novel by Markus Zusak and falls short of, to be frank, almost everything.
Firstly, let me scrape off the good bits before devouring this movie with pessimistic appetite. Sophie Nelisse is a great actress and plays the role of Liesel adequately, though I doubt you could find a better actress, except for Chloe Moretz. Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson as Hans and Rosa Hubermann also works quite well. Hans acts as the movie's 'comic relief' while Rosa plays the 'straight (wo)man'. The costumes are eye-catching and appropriately varied. Music is scored beautifully and suitably. It's all 'Book Thief-esque'.
Those who have read the novel would have realised that I have not mentioned two important characters: Rudy Steiner (Rico Liersch) and Max Vandenburg (Ben Schnetzer). That's because the less I say about them, the better they are. Rudy (or as everyone likes to call him 'Woody', 'Cooty' or 'Hoody') is just atrocious. Every time he appeared in the movie I just wanted to bury my head in my seat and suffocate. His voice was like a broken juice mixer and his acting was so poor I swear a tree frog could do better. His role in the movie was to make Liesel run (for those 'I'm a happy child' scenes), as though she was on a strict diet regime. The worst sin, however, would have to be the last scene. Those who have read the book know what I am talking about and I can assure that you will be highly disappointed. It will be unexpected and awful; so awful that it will be hilarious. I do not wish to spoil it but it took me several days to of complaining to come to terms with the fact that Percival may have destroyed one of the saddest scenes ever with his questionable directorial ability. Honestly, it was just pure awfulness. It even made Adam Sandler appealing.
For some reason, Percival thought it was a good idea to cast Max as a German Jew that did not speak German, or have a German accent. In fact, he had an obvious American accent which creates this lingual limbo. Whilst his acting itself was good, it is the director's directions that made him somewhat lacking. Yes, we see him interacting with Liesel, yes we see him bed-ridden and horrid like a kindergartener; yet his part was not considered as important as the book, which leads to several crucial parts that involves Max to be absent. For those who have read the book, it is a betrayal to the audience; for those who have not read the book, his role is singular.
Finally, as a film about Nazis, the Holocaust and the persecution of the Jews, there are a lot of other great movies (The Pianist, Schindler's List, Sophie Scholl, Saving Private Ryan, etc) and unfortunately this movie is not as good as them. The lack of 'persecutions' or the rawness of human cruelty is missing and instead focuses on the story of Liesel, making the whole movie more 'family friendly'. Then there's the ironic cast where most of the main characters are not German. Sophie Nelisse is French (Ha!), Rush is Australian, Watson and Schnetzer are Americans. Thus their German accent is almost too forced and fake that it once again breaks realism.
The Book Thief is a movie where everyone knew what was going to happen; everyone knew that it would not meet the expectations or the true beauty of the original novel and that those who have read the novel will most likely watch it, just out of spite. And as a movie by itself, I do have to say it is nice. It can stand on its own. But when it is an adaptation of a book that is beloved by every English student, then Percival is going to have an angry mob of English students on his doorsteps.
But hey, at least it's not as awful as Dragonball.

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Dr Nicola Curry MA MD FRCP FRCPath
Dr Nicola Curry is the Head of Department for the Oxford Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre, which specialises in the care of inherited and acquired bleeding and thrombotic disorders. She leads the Genetics Service for inherited bleeding disorders and the care of women with bleeding disorders. She is co-lead for the Thames Valley NIHR haematology research team and acts as Principle Investigator for many clinical trials at OHTC. Her main research interest is in the acquired coagulopathy of major haemorrhage.
Dr Susie Shapiro MA BM BCh MRCP FRCPath PhD
Dr Susie Shapiro is a Consultant Haematologist and works entirely in the field of haemostasis and thrombosis: haemophilia and other bleeding disorders, thrombosis and anticoagulation. As of August 2021 she is the Director of the Oxford Haemophilia Centre.
She has particular interest in improving patient safety, with projects to optimise anticoagulation and prevent venous thromboses winning national awards; and in improving knowledge of aging and comorbidities in people with bleeding disorders.
Her research interests complement her clinical work. She is the Principal Investigator at Oxford for several clinical trials, including gene therapy for haemophilia A and B, and she is an MRC clinical fellow investigating cancer associated thrombosis.
Clinical Specialist Nursing Team
Lucy Wood
Lucy Wood is the Lead Nurse for the thrombosis service, which comprises both an anticoagulation service providing remote management and advice for patients across Oxfordshire on vitamin K antagonist medication, and a DVT diagnostic service, which operates seven days a week and has clinics at both the Churchill and Horton General hospitals providing an award winning outpatient one-stop-shop diagnostic service for patients with suspected lower limb DVT.
Lucy has a management BA from the University of Sussex and a Nursing BSc from Oxford Brookes University, and has worked at OUH for over ten years. She joined the thrombosis team in 2012 and has a background in neurosurgical nursing.
Vicky Minty
Haemophilia Specialist Nurse
Vicky is a Haemophilia Specialist Nurse working with the Adult Service at the Haemophilia Centre, having joined in 2019. She qualified from Manchester University in 2009, and has worked within Oxford University Hospitals for over ten years as a Senior Staff Nurse with a background in surgical ward nursing and cancer care.
Simon Fletcher
Haemophilia Research Nurse
Simon is a Research Nurse at the Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre and has worked here since 2012. He has been nursing for over 30 years and has worked in intensive care and orthopaedic surgery.
He is passionate about clinical research and helping people with haemophilia access new and innovative treatments to reduce the impact of their condition on their lives. He is a member of the UK Haemophilia Nurses Association Committee and the European Association of Haemophilia and Allied Disorders Nurses Committee.
Lead Specialist Adult Physiotherapist
Stephanie has been working at the Haemophilia Centre since 2009. She manages the Adult Physiotherapy Service. She has an interest in musculoskeletal problems associated with bleeding disorders. She has a Masters in clinical research and is interested in exercise and balance issues in haemophilia.
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Peter Baker
Clinical Scientist
Peter is a Clinical Scientist and the Laboratory Lead for Haemostasis across the four sites in the Trust, including the Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre.
He has over 35 years in Laboratory Haematology training at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, before transferring to Oxford in 1998.
His interests include the development of new technologies for translation into routine diagnostic laboratories.
Michael Meyers
Haemophilia Centre Unit Manager
Michael is the Unit Manager of the Oxford Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre and previously worked in the Leisure and Hospitality industries.
Sharon Osborne
Admin and Clerical Team Lead
Sharon manages our large team and has worked at the Haemophilia Centre for over 30 years.
Karen Cairns
Karen is the Data Manager for the Oxford Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre, looking after our patient databases, which we use to help clinicians with patient care and research.
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IBM Calls for an End of Facial Recognition Technology Over Racial Profiling Fears
By Shani Saxon Jun 09, 2020
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna announced on Monday (June 8) that his company will no longer use facial recognition technology in their products, The Guardian reports. In a letter sent to Congress, Krishna called for "a national dialogue" addressing questions around responsible, fair use of the technology by law enforcement. "IBM would like to work with Congress in pursuit of justice and racial equity, focused initially in three key policy areas: police reform, responsible use of technology and broadening skills and educational opportunities," he wrote.
According to The Guardian, IBM's change of heart regarding the use of facial recognition coincides with growing scrutiny over technology companies entering contracts with police departments "amid violent crackdowns on peaceful protest across America."
After explaining that IBM will cease using facial recognition or analysis software, Krishna said in his letter to Congress: "IBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any technology, including facial recognition technology offered by other vendors, for mass surveillance, racial profiling, violations of basic human rights and freedoms, or any purpose which is not consistent with our values and principles of trust and transparency. We believe now is the time to begin a national dialogue on whether and how facial-recognition technology should be employed by domestic law enforcement agencies."
In an effort to promote racial equality in the U.S., Krishna proposed the following policy changes in his letter to Congress:
Police reform—new federal rules should hold police more accountable for misconduct.
Responsible technology policies—technology can increase transparency and help police protect communities but must not promote discrimination or racial injustice.
Expanding opportunity—training and education for in-demand skills is key to expanding economic opportunity for communities of color.
Some people, however, are not buying IBM's motives for backing out of the facial recognition game, The Guardian reports. Critics note the company was already trailing other tech corporations in the race to sell facial recognition capabilities. They also accuse IBM's letter of leaving "loopholes" because "it reserves the right to sell facial recognition technology for specific purposes, for example, as well as to re-sell the same technology from other vendors as part of its large consulting business," according to The Guardian.
Civil rights advocates have long criticized the use of facial recognition services because of its ability to quietly track large portions of communities of color. As Colorlines previously reported, activists accused Amazon Ring's partnership with police departments of "[threatening] civil liberties, privacy and civil rights, and [existing] without oversight or accountability." More than 30 activist organizations published a joint letter in October 2019 explaining their concerns about Amazon's technology.
Colorlines reported:
Amazon's technology creates a seamless and easily automated experience for police to request and access footage without a warrant, and then store it indefinitely. In the absence of clear civil liberties and rights-protective policies to govern the technologies and the use of their data, once collected, stored footage can be used by law enforcement to conduct facial recognition searches, target protesters exercising their First Amendment rights, teenagers for minor drug possession, or shared with other agencies like ICE or the FBI.
Critics aside, IBM's public stance is the strongest to date from a major tech corporation over the misuse of facial recognition technology, notes The Guardian.
Click here to read Krishna's entire letter to Congress.
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Anderlecht took control of the game and created several excellent chances. Though it took until the 23rd minute before Gillet equalised. Then the pace dropped, the score remained equal at half time.
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Jean-François Revel (19 January 1924 – 30 April 2006) was a French philosopher.
Similarly, societies where news is censored cannot enjoy the luxury of false objectivity because they do not have the true variety. In free civilizations, false objectivity must be fought by true objectivity, not by some alien bureaucracy. Prejudiced history is eliminated, or at least combated, by serious history, and corrupt journalism can only be defeated by honest journalism, not by a government commission whose first act may be to distribute some secret subsidies.
As quoted in Totalitarian Temptation (1976).
Democratic civilization is the first in history to blame itself because another power is working to destroy it.
It is clear that international law must evolve, even if it will be difficult to find the new and appropriate notions that will allow it to … However, it is unlikely that we will ever be capable of building a world that is qualitatively better than we ourselves are.
Anti-Americanism (2003), by Jean-François Revel, San Francisco: Encounter Books.
Since no example of Leninist socialism is other than totalitarian and bureaucratic, one wonders how the doctrinaire ideologists can dismiss so disdainfully those who point out that the promise of socialism in freedom, while surely praiseworthy, remains a promise only, not something experienced in reality. The utopia of socialism with a human face has been crushed everywhere even before it could be born. How distressing that becoming humane, which should be the least we could expect from a regime dedicated to liberating humanity, should present for socialism a problem as impossible as squaring the circle.
The idea that a culture can preserve its originality by barricading itself against foreign influences is an old illusion that has always produced the opposite of the desired result. Isolation breeds sterility. It is the free circulation of cultural products and talents that allows each society to perpetuate and renew itself.
Not just songs by Madonna and action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger; it includes 1,700 symphony orchestras, opera attended by 7.5 million people every year, and museums that are visited by 500 million annually, almost all American museums, where entrance is quite often free, owe their existence and funding to private sponsors.
There is a big difference between being anti-American and being critical of the United States. Once again: critiques are appropriate and necessary, provided that they rest on facts and address real abuses, real errors and real excesses -- without deliberately losing sight of America's wise decisions, beneficent interventions and salutary policies. But critiques of this kind -- balanced, fair and well-founded are hard to find, except in America herself: in the daily press in weekly news magazines, on television and radio, and in highbrow monthly journals, which are more widely read than their equivalents in Europe.
Anti-Americanism thus defined is less a popular prejudice than a parti pris of the political, cultural and religious elites.
The strange thing is that it's always in Europe that dictatorships and totalitarian regimes spring up, yet it's always America that is "fascist".
What picture of American society is likely to be imprinted on the consciousness of average Europeans? Given what they read or hear every day from intellectuals and politicians, they can hardly have any choice in the unpleasant particulars, especially if they happen to be French. The picture repeatedly sketched for them is as follows: American society is entirely ruled by money. No other value, whether familial, moral, religious, civic, cultural, professional, or ethical has any potency in itself. Everything in America is a commodity, regarded and used exclusively for its material value. A person is judged solely by the worth of his bank account. Every U.S. President has been in the pockets of the oil companies, the military-industrial complex, the agricultural lobby, or the financial manipulators of Wall Street. America is the "jungle" par excellence of out-of-control, "savage" capitalism, where the rich are always becoming richer and fewer, while the poor are becoming poorer and more numerous. Poverty is the dominant social reality in America. Hordes of famished indigents are everywhere, while luxurious chauffeured limousines with darkened windows glide through the urban wilderness.
Poverty and inequality like this should cause Europeans to cringe in horror, especially since (we have it on good authority) there is no safety net in America, no unemployment benefits, no retirement, no assistance for the destitute--not the slightest bit of social solidarity. In the U.S. "only the most fortunate have the right to medical care and to grow old with dignity," as one writer recently put it in Libération. University courses are reserved only for those who can pay, which partly explains the "low level of education" in the benighted US.
Europeans firmly believe these sorts of caricatures--because they are repeated every day by the elites.
This is the message of critics not only in Europe, but also in the United States itself, where anti-Americanism continues to prosper among university, journalistic, and literary elites. But in Europe, these ideological reasons for blaming America first are multiplied by simple jealousy of American power. The current American "hyperpower" is the direct consequence of European powerlessness, both past and present. The United States fills a void caused by our inadequacies in capability, thinking, and will to act.
Shortly after 9/11 a French spokesman for the activist group ATTAC quoted the adage: "He who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind." French prime minister Lionel Jospin seemed to be pointing in this direction when he asked, "What lesson are the Americans going to draw from what has happened?" The lesson, Jospin indicated, should be for the U.S. to moderate her unilateralism. For Cardinal Karl Lehmann, president of the German Bishops' Conference, the lesson to be drawn from terrorism was that "the West must not seek to dominate the rest of the world."
Soon, many European elites insinuated that the jihadist attacks had some moral justification. These anti-American views began to circulate well before the campaign to dislodge the Taliban kicked off on October 7. The bombing which became the most frequently invoked reason to take sides against the U.S. had not yet even begun.
The success and originality of American integration stem precisely from the fact that immigrants' descendants can perpetuate their ancestral cultures while thinking of themselves as Americans in the fullest sense, sharing basic ideals across racial and ethnic barriers. In France, the characteristic attitude of newcomers from North Africa, Turkey, and sub-Saharan Africa is predominantly one of alienation, confrontation, rejection, and hatred.
As immigration trends suggest, anti-Americanism is not deeply rooted as a popular prejudice. In Europe, anti-Americanism is much more a hobgoblin of the political, cultural, and religious elites. According to a SOFRES survey of May 2000, only 10 percent of French feel dislike for the U.S. After September 11, according to another poll, 52 percent of French people interviewed said they had always felt warmly toward the U.S., against 32 percent who said the opposite. Historian Michel Winock concludes that "anti-Americanism is not an attitude of the average French person; it is typical of a certain segment of the elites."
What exactly do the intellectuals want out of their Rococo Marxist mental acrobatics? Is it change they want, change for all the para-proletariats whose ideological benefactors they proclaim themselves to be? Of course not. Actual change would involve irksome toil. So what do they want?
It's a simple business, at bottom. All the intellectual wants, in his heart of hearts, is to hold on to what was magically given to him one shining moment a century ago. He asks for nothing more than to remain aloof, removed, as Revel once put it, from the mob, the philistines . . . "the middle class."
Honorary Doctoral Degrees, at the Universidad Francisco Marroquín.
Douglas Martin, "J-F Revel, French Philosopher, is dead at 82," May 2, 2006, Section B, Page 7, The New York Times, The New York Times Company.


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Update Date: March 28, 2018
Philips is a committed leader in medical device cybersecurity. Governed by our global Product Security Policy, the company conducts extensive ongoing analysis of our products, often in collaboration with customers and researchers, to identify and address potential vulnerabilities.
As part of Philips' Responsible Disclosure Policy for the awareness and remediation of potential system security vulnerabilities, Philips is proactively issuing an advisory concerning potential vulnerabilities that may affect Philips iSite and IntelliSpace PACS (Picture Archiving and Communications Systems).
Philips has confirmed that Philips iSite and IntelliSpace PACS contain security vulnerabilities that under certain specific conditions could impact or potentially compromise patient confidentiality, system integrity, and/or system availability. To remediate the risk of these identified vulnerabilities, Philips is offering customers a number of potential options to select, based on their requirements.
Philips' analysis has shown that these issues, if fully exploited may allow attackers of low skill to provide unexpected input into the application, execute arbitrary code, alter the intended control flow of the system, access sensitive information, or potentially cause a system crash. Philips has identified that some of the affected vulnerabilities could be attacked remotely. Exploits that could target some of the vulnerabilities are known to be publicly available.
At this time, Philips has received no reports of patient harm. Philips analysis has shown that it is unlikely that this vulnerability would impact clinical use, due to mitigating controls currently in place. To date, Philips has received no complaints involving clinical use that we have been able to associate with this problem.
Philips IntelliSpace PACS runs in a managed service environment which adheres to ICS-CERT recommendations to minimize the risk of exploitation (Virtual Private Network, Firewall isolation from other networks, no internet access). In addition, Philips employs an automated Antivirus solution that continuously monitors and remediates threats across all systems in the managed service environment. Philips has a monthly recurring patch program which all IntelliSpace PACS users are encouraged to participate. Customers who participate in this program receive all Philips approved operating system and application patches in a timely fashion.
In addition, in 2016 Philips announced software updates and has controlling mitigations on the affected PACS systems to further limit the risk and exploitability of these vulnerabilities. The Philips iSite 3.6 platform is currently at its end of life (EoL) and end of service (EoS).
Philips recommends three paths that customers may select depending on their particular situation, which are offered by Philips at no charge for full service delivery model contracts:
The simplest and most straightforward option is to enroll in Philips recurring patching program, this will remediate 86% of all known vulnerabilities.
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The most robust option by Philips is to enroll in the recurring patching program and update system firmware and upgrade to IntelliSpace PACS 4.4.55x with Windows operating system 2012, which addresses product hardening. This option remediates 99.9% of all the known vulnerabilities including all critical vulnerabilities.
Philips will continue to add cybersecurity vulnerability remediation improvements through our Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) as threats continue.
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Users with questions regarding their specific IntelliSpace PACS solutions are advised by Philips to contact their Customer Success Manager (CSM), Market Success Leader (MSL), local Philips service support team, or regional service support. Philips contact information is available at the following location:


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Dead Space 3's Voice Commands Prepared for Curse-Laden Outbursts
News 1/3/2013 at 10:59 AM by Nick Puleo 1
HOLY F#CK! Pass the cheetos.
We already know that the Xbox 360 version of Dead Space 3 is going to utilize Kinect to allow voice commands in the game's co-op mode, giving you the ability to give ammo to your partner or various other support commands simply by speaking them. And while that's cool and all by allowing us to skip some cumbersome menus in co-op, it's the latest feature that has us just as excited.
When we think of horror games we think of people screaming and swearing... will Kinect pick up on our feedback?
Yes! We actually have some commands that people will need to figure out. But there are commands where you might be in a certain situation and you might yell a specific expletive and it might behave in a way that you want it to. We definitely have done some things there...
So if you scream like a little girl at horror games you might be getting some bonus interaction.
The co-op in Dead Space 3 will also see some other interesting scenarios arise, that is, above and beyond making fun of your partner for jumping and screaming at the three headed necromorph. Because dementia plays such a major part in the narrative, there are times that one player will be hallucinating while the other isn't seeing anything. Further, during these sections there are actual areas that open up in the game that wouldn't otherwise be accessible if only one player was present. I guess gone are the day when you used to press the space bar while running along the walls looking for a secret door - now you have to play co-op with a hallucinating psychopath.
Dead Space 3 is set to be released on Xbox 360 (with optional voice support on Kinect), PlayStation 3 and PC on February 5th. All versions feature two player online co-op throughout the campaign.
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The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada maintains a strong pro-life stand
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In its 1976 General Conference the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada adopted a resolution to petition the Prime Minister of Canada to give careful and immediate attention to the widespread practice of abortion (virtually on demand) and its destruction of innocent human life, and to enact legislation which will provide protection for the child conceived but not yet born – the same protection provided for any other person.
The resolution indicated that abortion should be performed only when the life of the mother was at stake. It urged that the Parliament of Canada show leadership in fostering a life-sustaining society. It further urged that the law give full consideration to the rights of medical personnel to refuse to participate in performing abortions.
In its 1980 General Conference the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada adopted a resolution reaffirming its 1976 resolution on abortion.
The P.A.O.C, a Fellowship of over 820 churches in Canada, is expected to again adopt a strong pro-life position in the very near future.
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Submarine Patrol is een Amerikaanse oorlogsfilm uit 1938 onder regie van John Ford. De film werd destijds uitgebracht onder de titel Onderzee-patrouille.</small>

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Luitenant John C. Drake is gedegradeerd wegens plichtsverzuim. Hij voert het commando over de bedenkelijke bemanning van een militaire onderzeeër. Drake wil zichzelf echter bewijzen. Hij brengt zo verschillende vijandelijke schepen tot zinken.

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Jobs That Pay Over 100k for Nurses
By Sharon Perkins
What Does a Lactation Specialist Make?
The Salary Range for an RN With a Master's in Public Health
A Nursing Home Chaplain's Pay Scale
Nursing Vs. Physical Therapy: Salary and Requirements
Nursing in general pays well, although the work is often emotionally and physically stressful. The average RN makes $64,690 per year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. To earn over $100,000 per year as a nurse, you need to either specialize in an area that pays better than average or live in an area where nursing salaries are highest.
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists
Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, also known as CRNAs, are among the highest-paid nurses in the United States, earning an average yearly salary of $160,000 in 2005, according to the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists. Nurse anesthetists must have a minimum of a bachelor of science in nursing, or BSN, and at least one year of critical care nursing experience before starting the nurse anesthetist program; the program takes 24 to 36 months of post-graduate work. In more than two-thirds of all rural hospitals in the United States, CRNAs are the sole anesthesia providers.
Nurse-Practitioners
Nurse-practitioners are registered nurses who have undergone an additional two year's training in an accredited nurse-practitioner program. Nurse-practitioners can prescribe medications, diagnose and treat patients and can work in private practice, although many practice in partnership with medical doctors. Although the annual average salary for nurse-practitioners in 2011 was $90,583, according to "Advance for NPs and PAs," some specialty areas, such as the emergency room, upped the ante to over $100,000.
Certified Nurse-Midwives
Certified nurse-midwives are RNs, usually with a minimum of a BSN, who undertake additional training to become certified. CNMs works in hospitals, birthing centers or in private practices. Salaries can vary considerably depending on where you work and how busy you are if you have your own practice, but can exceed $100,000. The American College of Nurse-Midwives 2007 Compensation Survey found that 15.1 percent of CNMs made more than $100,000 per year.
Health administrators or directors of nursing at hospitals, nursing homes and other acute or chronic care centers or physician practices can often take home more than $100,000 per year. Nurses who go back to school for a master's degree or doctorate and are hired into health administration made an average of $91,440 per year, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported in May 2010. But administrators in doctor's offices employing between seven and 25 doctors made an average of $115,000.
RNs in Well-Paid Locales
If you live in certain geographical areas, you can make over $100,000 as a regular RN. RNs in San Jose and Oakland, California make over $100,000 per year, according to US News and World Report.
American Association of Nurse-Anesthetists: Questions and Answers -- Career Possibilities in Nurse Anesthesia
American College of Nurse-Midwives: 	ACNM Compensation and Benefits Survey 2007
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Medical and Health Services Manager
US News and World Report: Registered Nurse: Salary
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Registered Nurses
A registered nurse with more than 25 years of experience in oncology, labor/delivery, neonatal intensive care, infertility and ophthalmology, Sharon Perkins has also coauthored and edited numerous health books for the Wiley "Dummies" series. Perkins also has extensive experience working in home health with medically fragile pediatric patients.
Advanced Practice Nurses vs. Nurse Practitioners
Rate of Pay for a Home Health Registered Nurse
Obstetric Nursing Careers
What Degrees Do You Need for a CRNA?
How Much Does an ER Pediatrician Make?
How Much Does a Health Care Administrator Earn?
How Much Can an Oncology Pediatric Nurse Earn?
How Much Money Do Pediatric Nurses Earn?
Midwives vs. Obstetricians
1 Advanced Practice Nurses vs. Nurse Practitioners
2 Rate of Pay for a Home Health Registered Nurse
3 Obstetric Nursing Careers
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Daisy Miller is a novella by Henry James that first appeared in The Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1878, and in book form the following year. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates when they meet in Switzerland and Italy. This novella serves as both a psychological description of the mind of a young woman and as an analysis of the traditional views of a society where she is a clear outsider. Henry James uses Daisy's story to discuss what he thinks Europeans and Americans believe about each other and more generally the prejudices common in any culture. In a letter, James said that Daisy is the victim of a "social rumpus" that goes on either over her head or beneath her notice.
A Study
At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a particularly comfortable hotel. There are, indeed, many hotels, for the entertainment of tourists is the business of the place, which, as many travelers will remember, is seated upon the edge of a remarkably blue lake — a lake that it behooves every tourist to visit. The shore of the lake presents an unbroken array of establishments of this order, of every category, from the "grand hotel" of the newest fashion, with a chalk-white front, a hundred balconies, and a dozen flags flying from its roof, to the little Swiss pension of an elder day, with its name inscribed in German-looking lettering upon a pink or yellow wall and an awkward summerhouse in the angle of the garden. One of the hotels at Vevey, however, is famous, even classical, being distinguished from many of its upstart neighbors by an air both of luxury and of maturity. In this region, in the month of June, American travelers are extremely numerous; it may be said, indeed, that Vevey assumes at this period some of the characteristics of an American watering place. There are sights and sounds which evoke a vision, an echo, of Newport and Saratoga. There is a flitting hither and thither of "stylish" young girls, a rustling of muslin flounces, a rattle of dance music in the morning hours, a sound of high-pitched voices at all times. You receive an impression of these things at the excellent inn of the "Trois Couronnes" and are transported in fancy to the Ocean House or to Congress Hall. But at the "Trois Couronnes," it must be added, there are other features that are much at variance with these suggestions: neat German waiters, who look like secretaries of legation; Russian princesses sitting in the garden; little Polish boys walking about held by the hand, with their governors; a view of the sunny crest of the Dent du Midi and the picturesque towers of the Castle of Chillon.
I hardly know whether it was the analogies or the differences that were uppermost in the mind of a young American, who, two or three years ago, sat in the garden of the "Trois Couronnes," looking about him, rather idly, at some of the graceful objects I have mentioned. It was a beautiful summer morning, and in whatever fashion the young American looked at things, they must have seemed to him charming. He had come from Geneva the day before by the little steamer, to see his aunt, who was staying at the hotel — Geneva having been for a long time his place of residence. But his aunt had a headache — his aunt had almost always a headache — and now she was shut up in her room, smelling camphor, so that he was at liberty to wander about.
He was some seven-and-twenty years of age; when his friends spoke of him, they usually said that he was at Geneva "studying." When his enemies spoke of him, they said — but, after all, he had no enemies; he was an extremely amiable fellow, and universally liked. What I should say is, simply, that when certain persons spoke of him they affirmed that the reason of his spending so much time at Geneva was that he was extremely devoted to a lady who lived there — a foreign lady — a person older than himself. Very few Americans — indeed, I think none — had ever seen this lady, about whom there were some singular stories. But Winterbourne had an old attachment for the little metropolis of Calvinism; he had been put to school there as a boy, and he had afterward gone to college there — circumstances which had led to his forming a great many youthful friendships. Many of these he had kept, and they were a source of great satisfaction to him.
After knocking at his aunt's door and learning that she was indisposed, he had taken a walk about the town, and then he had come in to his breakfast. He had now finished his breakfast; but he was drinking a small cup of coffee, which had been served to him on a little table in the garden by one of the waiters who looked like an attache. At last he finished his coffee and lit a cigarette. Presently a small boy came walking along the path — an urchin of nine or ten. The child, who was diminutive for his years, had an aged expression of countenance, a pale complexion, and sharp little features. He was dressed in knickerbockers, with red stockings, which displayed his poor little spindle-shanks; he also wore a brilliant red cravat. He carried in his hand a long alpenstock, the sharp point of which he thrust into everything that he approached — the flowerbeds, the garden benches, the trains of the ladies' dresses. In front of Winterbourne he paused, looking at him with a pair of bright, penetrating little eyes.
"Will you give me a lump of sugar?" he asked in a sharp, hard little voice — a voice immature and yet, somehow, not young. Winterbourne glanced at the small table near him, on which his coffee service rested, and saw that several morsels of sugar remained.
"Yes, you may take one," he answered; "but I don't think sugar is good for little boys." This little boy stepped forward and carefully selected three of the coveted fragments, two of which he buried in the pocket of his knickerbockers, depositing the other as promptly in another place. He poked his alpenstock, lance-fashion, into Winterbourne's bench and tried to crack the lump of sugar with his teeth.
"Oh, blazes; it's har-r-d!" he exclaimed, pronouncing the adjective in a peculiar manner.
Winterbourne had immediately perceived that he might have the honor of claiming him as a fellow countryman.
"Take care you don't hurt your teeth," he said, paternally.
"I haven't got any teeth to hurt. They have all come out. I have only got seven teeth. My mother counted them last night, and one came out right afterward. She said she'd slap me if any more came out. I can't help it. It's this old Europe. It's the climate that makes them come out. In America they didn't come out. It's these hotels."
Winterbourne was much amused. "If you eat three lumps of sugar, your mother will certainly slap you," he said.
"She's got to give me some candy, then," rejoined his young interlocutor. "I can't get any candy here — any American candy. American candy's the best candy."
"And are American little boys the best little boys?" asked Winterbourne.
"I don't know. I'm an American boy," said the child.
"I see you are one of the best!" laughed Winterbourne.
"Are you an American man?" pursued this vivacious infant. And then, on Winterbourne's affirmative reply — "American men are the best," he declared.
His companion thanked him for the compliment, and the child, who had now got astride of his alpenstock, stood looking about him, while he attacked a second lump of sugar. Winterbourne wondered if he himself had been like this in his infancy, for he had been brought to Europe at about this age.
"Here comes my sister!" cried the child in a moment. "She's an American girl."
Winterbourne looked along the path and saw a beautiful young lady advancing. "American girls are the best girls," he said cheerfully to his young companion.
"My sister ain't the best!" the child declared. "She's always blowing at me."
"I imagine that is your fault, not hers," said Winterbourne. The young lady meanwhile had drawn near. She was dressed in white muslin, with a hundred frills and flounces, and knots of pale-colored ribbon. She was bareheaded, but she balanced in her hand a large parasol, with a deep border of embroidery; and she was strikingly, admirably pretty.
"How pretty they are!" thought Winterbourne, straightening himself in his seat, as if he were prepared to rise.
The young lady paused in front of his bench, near the parapet of the garden, which overlooked the lake. The little boy had now converted his alpenstock into a vaulting pole, by the aid of which he was springing about in the gravel and kicking it up not a little.
"Randolph," said the young lady, "what are you doing?"
"I'm going up the Alps," replied Randolph. "This is the way!" And he gave another little jump, scattering the pebbles about Winterbourne's ears.
"That's the way they come down," said Winterbourne. "He's an American man!" cried Randolph, in his little hard voice.
The young lady gave no heed to this announcement, but looked straight at her brother. "Well, I guess you had better be quiet," she simply observed.
It seemed to Winterbourne that he had been in a manner presented. He got up and stepped slowly toward the young girl, throwing away his cigarette. "This little boy and I have made acquaintance," he said, with great civility. In Geneva, as he had been perfectly aware, a young man was not at liberty to speak to a young unmarried lady except under certain rarely occurring conditions; but here at Vevey, what conditions could be better than these? — a pretty American girl coming and standing in front of you in a garden. This pretty American girl, however, on hearing Winterbourne's observation, simply glanced at him; she then turned her head and looked over the parapet, at the lake and the opposite mountains. He wondered whether he had gone too far, but he decided that he must advance farther, rather than retreat. While he was thinking of something else to say, the young lady turned to the little boy again.
"I should like to know where you got that pole," she said.
"I bought it," responded Randolph.
"You don't mean to say you're going to take it to Italy?"
"Yes, I am going to take it to Italy," the child declared. The young girl glanced over the front of her dress and smoothed out a knot or two of ribbon. Then she rested her eyes upon the prospect again. "Well, I guess you had better leave it somewhere," she said after a moment.
"Are you going to Italy?" Winterbourne inquired in a tone of great respect.
The young lady glanced at him again. "Yes, sir," she replied. And she said nothing more.
"Are you — a — going over the Simplon?" Winterbourne pursued, a little embarrassed.
"I don't know," she said. "I suppose it's some mountain. Randolph, what mountain are we going over?"
"Going where?" the child demanded.
"To Italy," Winterbourne explained.
"I don't know," said Randolph. "I don't want to go to Italy. I want to go to America."
"Oh, Italy is a beautiful place!" rejoined the young man.
"Can you get candy there?" Randolph loudly inquired.
"I hope not," said his sister. "I guess you have had enough candy, and mother thinks so too."
"I haven't had any for ever so long — for a hundred weeks!" cried the boy, still jumping about.


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The Gadget Show returns to Channel 5 with ATEM Mini Pro
Blackmagic Design today announced that an ATEM Mini Pro has helped the latest series of The Gadget Show, produced by North One Television in Birmingham, to stay on air despite lockdown and social distancing challenges.
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Fremont, CA – September 24, 2020 – Blackmagic Design today announced that an ATEM Mini Pro has helped the latest series of The Gadget Show, produced by North One Television in Birmingham, to stay on air despite lockdown and social distancing challenges.
Launched in 2004, The Gadget Show is a consumer technology focused television program, which uses studio links throughout each episode. In the UK, it's broadcast on Channel 5 and is one of the longest running returnable series, providing news, reviews and insight to some of the latest innovations from the world of tech.
Series producer, Tim Wagg, explains: "When the government allowed TV production to start again in June, the team had only five days to get ready for a studio record. It was an incredibly tight turnaround especially considering we were all working remotely."
He adds: "We'd normally have an OB truck, with up to 20 people on set, which had to be drastically reduced to maintain a safe and socially distant working environment."
"A crucial part of The Gadget Show is for our presenters to react to the prerecorded segments (VTs) which have just been shown to viewers," Tim continues. "So finding a way to bring these elements into the studio environment makes for a much more fluid program.
"We also find it useful during our news segments where content floats up on screen to bring a visual element to the conversation, something which would have required hours of work in post to superimpose the footage onto a blank TV screen.
"Without the luxury of our usual OB truck and crew, we had no way to drive this monitor cleanly, and we wanted an alternative solution that was portable, easy to use and affordable. We also needed HDMI connectivity."
This is where the ATEM Mini Pro came in. "I have all the stings, graphics and VTs, loaded onto my MacBook, and by connecting this via HDMI to the ATEM Mini Pro, we have been able to throw content to the monitor seamlessly. We've also been able to use it to accommodate our 'Wallop of the Week' segment, which is hosted over Zoom.
"It seems simple," he continues. "But without the ATEM Mini Pro, we would have struggled to implement such a fluid workflow. It has enabled us to continue to produce slick studio elements that go in line with the fast paced, conversational tone we like to set."
Adding: "Like a lot of the industry, COVID restrictions have presented a number of challenges, but as a production company we are well equipped to deal with them, thanks in part to manufacturers like Blackmagic Design."
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AUSTIN, TX - Senator Jane Nelson, R-Flower Mound, issued the following statement in response to today's release of an audit showing contracting irregularities at our health and human services agencies. This audit follows recent reports of similar contracting errors within the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) involving the procurement of Children's Health Insurance Program contracts.
"Twice in one week? After an exhaustive Sunset review and major reforms, we are still seeing sloppy contracting that drives up costs and puts services at risk. I am investigating our options to tighten oversight policies," Senator Nelson said. "The Legislature will not accept another systemic breakdown in procurement -- especially at an agency serving our most vulnerable Texans."
Senator Nelson has authored two reform bills over the past two sessions to strengthen oversight of contracting processes. An overview of each bill is attached. Highlights of the Sunset Advisory Commission's findings about contracting issues at HHSC can be found here.


The following is a statement by Hon. Omar Figueroa, Belize's Minister of State, Agriculture, Fisheries, Forestry, the Environment and Sustainable Development, at the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP 22) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the 12th Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 12), and the 1st Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA 1) on 16th November, 2016.
It is a great pleasure to join you here in the beautiful city of Marrakech. Your hospitality has been unparalleled. We are most grateful for all of the courtesies that have been extended to our delegation.
Each year, Belizeans are reminded that climate change represents an existential threat for our people. In August 2016, Hurricane Earl made landfall in Belize causing damages in excess of 5% of GDP. This, Mr. President, is the 14th extreme weather-related event to affect Belize in the last 15 years, with some events causing losses equivalent of 25-45% of GDP.
For us climate change represents the greatest economic, social and environmental threat to our country. The adverse effects of climate change have direct implications on the future state of the country, the achievement of our sustainable development goals, and thus the ability of Belizeans to improve the quality of their lives. As we move forward, we must employ an inclusive, long-term and collaborative process to build the resilience of our economic, social and environmental systems. This, however, requires predictable, adequate and fast-tracked financing, at scale, to allow us to meaningfully and effectively face these escalating threats.
Despite these constant and escalating shocks to our development, Belize continues to pursue practical and ambitious actions under the Convention. Our Growth and Sustainable Development Strategy (GSDS) brings cohesiveness and synergies across our economic, social, environmental, and institutional policies. The GSDS aims to achieve sustainable development through poverty eradication, better stewardship of our natural resources, and improved resilience in the face of a volatile global economy and a changing global climate.
In 2015, Belize adopted its first comprehensive National Climate Change Policy, Strategy and Action Plan that identifies priority actions for each economic sector. It seeks to build governance capacity and improved resilience, and enhance adaptation capabilities to cope with climate change impacts.
Belize, notwithstanding our negligible emissions factor, is committed to the more ambitious target under the Paris Agreement to limit the increase in global temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. This requires global commitment and action. All countries, including the Republic of China on Taiwan, must be allowed to contribute their experience and technologies to meet this ambition.
Consequently, Belize has set bold, national targets through its Nationally Determined Contributions that will allow us to transition strategically to a low carbon development pathway, while strengthening our resilience.
By 2033, for example, Belize is committed to expand its share of renewable energy in the electricity sector from 60% to 89%.
We are also committed to reducing conventional transportation fuel by at least 20% through appropriate policies and investments.
Belize also aims to achieve significant emission reductions through sustainable forest management, which will reduce deforestation and land degradation, protect watersheds and increase the resilience of forest communities to climate change. We will soon approach the Green Climate Fund for funding to conduct our National Adaptation Planning (NAP) process.
Our National Communication Strategy for Climate Change will foster greater public awareness and the engagement of all stakeholders.
Predictable finance, balanced between mitigation and adaptation, capacity building and transfer of technology are crucial for the full and effective implementation of the Paris Agreement. We thank the developed countries for the early release of the road map to achieve USD 100 billion per annum by 2020. Note, however, that this pledge is but a drop in the bucket of the estimated trillions needed to meet the 1.5 degree temperature goal. We seek your continued engagement to further enhance the roadmap and scale up of finances so as to increase predictability, foster confidence, and ensure that the adaptation needs of SIDs are adequately addressed. Furthermore, where adaptation is not an option, countries must have support for irreparable loss and damage.
we must provide guidance to the GCF to finalize the simplified approval procedures without delay so as to enhance access for the most vulnerable with prioritization to public and grant based support, especially for adaptation.
These outcomes, if achieved, Mr. President, will make COP22 an Action COP.
COP 22 in Marrakech must deliver. We must set the pace for implementing the Paris Agreement. We must establish the accounting guidelines, develop a compliance mechanism, begin to build a robust transparency framework, and global stock-take process with a view to completing our work as early as 2017.
By caribbeanclimate in News on November 16, 2016 .


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The 10 Most Beautiful Regions in Italy
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Italy is a much-loved nation, both, by Italians and, even more, by foreigners. The tourist flows speak for themselves: people and groups from all over Europe and beyond love lakes, seas, mountains, cities of art of this beautiful country. They also love spending their holidays or even short weekends in this country.
But which are the most beautiful regions in Italy?
We asked around 10,000 travelers and Italians to express their preferences based on criteria such as landscapes and environmental beauty, artistic and cultural heritage wealth, leisure and entertainment opportunities wealth, and general quality of tourist services. In the end, we've combined the results of the survey with international data on the approval rating of Italian regions abroad. Here are the 10 most beautiful regions in Italy according to the results!
10. Liguria
8. Sicily
7. Campania
6. Emilia Romagna
4. Trentino Alto Adige
3. Lazio
1. Veneto
Landscapes and environmental beauty: 8/10
History, art, culture: 7/10
Leisure and entertainment: 6/10
Tourist organization and services: 6/10
Rating by foreign tourists: 8/10
TOTAL: 35/50
It's enough to mention the Cinque Terre to say a lot about the scenic beauty of Liguria. Monterosso al Mare, Vernazza, Corniglia, Manarola, and Riomaggiore represent a naturalistic wealth much appreciated by tourists, especially foreigners.
From the point of view of leisure and entertainment, Liguria is not particularly developed. The same applies to transport services: currently, in addition to the motorway, there is only one railway line with a single track. Besides Cinque Terre, cities like Genoa and places like Sanremo have enormous historical and cultural importance and are known all over the world.
Right after Liguria in the ranking of the most beautiful regions in Italy, comes Piedmont. Turin, the regional capital, has a very ancient history and was also the first capital of the Kingdom of Italy, from 1861 to 1865: the city is rich in museums and palaces that belonged to the Kings.
From the offer of tourist services point of view, Piedmont is well organized. The Caselle airport is well connected with the main destinations and Turin also has a metro line. But Turin is not the only city worth visiting; there are also Moncalieri, Venaria, Acqui Terme, Cuneo, and Ivrea.
Of course, Sicily can't be missing from a list of the most beautiful regions in Italy when it has its splendid sea and archaeological sites of enormous historical importance, such as the Valley of the Temples.
Even from an entertainment point of view, Sicily is very popular, especially for young people: San Vito Lo Capo is currently one of the favourite seaside resorts for under 35s. For those who want to travel around Sicily, we recommend renting a car.
With one point more than Sicily, Campania takes the 7th position in the ranking. Although the general trend of leisure and entertainment is lower than in Sicily, Campagnia is more appreciated by foreign tourists who like to visit places such as the Amalfi Coast and the Island of Capri. Numerous foreign VIPs have been spotted in those areas and Pail McCartney was one of the last.
Leisure and entertainment: 10/10
Tourist organization and services: 10/10
Apart from the wonderful cities of art and historical importance such as Bologna, Rimini, and Ferrara Emilia Romagna mostly lives on tourism brought from the Romagna Riviera. The summer months are a unique entertainment, from morning to late at night.
The Romagna coast offers some of the most famous discos of the entire Adriatic coast, such as the Pineta and Vanquish of Milano Marittima. During peak periods there are also night buses. Foreign tourism is on the rise.
Appreciation by foreign tourists: 10/10
Tuscany is a very popular destination for tourists, especially foreigners. Cities of art such as Siena, Pisa, Florence, as well as seaside resorts such as the Island of Elba allow Tuscany to place itself in 5th place in our ranking.
Florence is served by the High-Speed Train and there are numerous rail connections within the region. The Chianti area is ideal for relaxing and enogastronomic holiday, whereas Florence, with its numerous museums, including the famous Uffizi, and churches is one of the most popular cities of art in Italy.
Landscapes and environmental beauty: 10/10
Trentino Alto Adige is a very popular region for those who want to lose themselves in the wonderful nature of the Dolomites or relax in a SPA & Wellness Center.
The breathtaking landscapes, the numerous lakes, the high peaks, and renowned ski slopes make Trentino Alto Adige a territory very visited, both, by Italians and by foreign neighbors of Austria and Germany. For those who appreciate culture and history, Trento, Bolzano, and Merano are very interesting places.
History, art, culture: 10/10
On the last step of the podium, we find the Lazio region that holds nothing less than the capital Rome. Rome is one of the favorite destinations for tourists, both, Italian and foreign. Impossible to mention all the historical, artistic, and cultural riches, we'll only mention a few, including the Via dei Fori Imperiali, the Vatican Museums with the Sistine Chapel, Piazza Navona, and Piazza di Spagna. They are an absolute "must-visit" at least once in our life.
Also in Rome, on the Trastevere, there is fun until late at night. Apart from Rome, Lazio offers other places that are worth a visit, such as the Island of Ponza, Casino, and Tivoli.
In the second place, we find Lombardy. When it comes to entertainment and offer of services, Milan is the host, but Lombardy is rich in landscapes and very beautiful areas, such as the Adda River, Lake Iseo, Lake Como, and the cities of Brescia and Bergamo.
There are numerous wildlife and family parks, such as Cornelle Park and the Prehistoric Park of Rivolta d'Adda. Lombardy also has an excellent transport service.
At the top of our ranking, we find the Veneto region, which is much appreciated by foreign tourists thanks to Lake Garda and the cities like Verona and Venice.
There are numerous other minor cities, such as Cittadella and Bassano del Grappa, that make Veneto a region of great beauty. The Veronese shore of Lake Garda has numerous amusement parks, including Gardaland, Medieval Times, and Movie Studios.
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Pentziinae es una subtribu perteneciente a la subfamilia Asteroideae de la familia Asteraceae.

Descripción
Las especies de este grupo son en su mayoría arbustos (Cymbopappus , Marasmodes y Pentzia) o plantas anuales (Foveolina , Myxopappus , Oncosiphon y Rennera). Las hojas a lo largo del vástago están dispuestas de una manera alterna (raramente opuestas, solo en Pentzia y Rennera ). La lámina es completa o 1-2 - pinnatosecta. Las inflorescencias están compuestas de cabezas solitarias en corimbos lazos. La estructura de la cabeza es típico de la familia Asteraceae : un tallo de apoyo a una concha semiesférica / cilíndrica (raramente urceolada en Marasmodes ) compuesta de diferentes escalas (o brácteas ) en varias series (3-5) dispuestas de manera imbricada que sirven como protección para el receptáculo plano-convexo (sin lana) en el que se encuentran dos tipos de flores: las externas radiales, liguladas y femeninas (o estériles) y las internas del disco, tubulares y hermafroditas.  El color de la flor es de color blanco o púrpura. La parte basal de flores tubulares se hincha en algunas especies ( Oncosiphon ). Además, la corola de estas flores que normalmente en la parte apical tiene 5 lóbulos a veces puede ocurrir con un menor número de lóbulos. El fruto es un aquenio alargado (o obvoide) con 4-5 costillas longitudinales. En el pico puede haber una corona de 3-10 escalas.

Distribución y hábitat

Las especies de este grupo se distribuyen principalmente en el Hemisferio sur en África.

Géneros
La subtribu comprende 7 géneros y 49 especies:

Cymbopappus B. Nord. (3 spp.)
Foveolina Källersjö (5 spp.)
Marasmodes DC. (4 spp.)
Myxopappus Källersjö (2 spp.)
Oncosiphon Källersjö (8 spp.)
Pentzia Thunb. (23 spp.)
Rennera Merxm. (4 spp.)

Referencias

 &  in ,  & , 2007. A new subtribal classification of the tribe Anthemideae (Compositae). Willdenowia 37(1): 89-114 (99-100!).

Enlaces externos
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Q: Alternative options to MS SQL REPLICATION I would like to ask if there are any alternative options to ms sql replication(this is what i am using now) for replicating data.
Creating a custom architecture for replicating is a good idea?
PS. The alternative option must support mobile databases that run on Windows CE/Mobile
EDIT: The application should be able to work offline for a while, then on demand by the user to synchronize with the server database by sending/receiving all new/updated data to and from the server.

A: You have a couple of options, based on your requirements.
1) Log shipping, where the log from your central DB is copied to other servers at a regular interval, and that log is applied to the DB. This approach only works if you have a central publishing DB, and a number of subscribing databases
2) Use SSIS or DTS to regularly copy data between databases, this can be bi-directional aslong as your keys are unique, use GUIDs or ID ranges
3) Detach central DB, copy the underlying files (data and log) to destination servers. This has the disadvantage of taking the central DB offline, albeit briefly.
I think creating a custom architecture for replication is a really bad idea, but without knowing what your requirements are it's hard to suggest a complete solution.

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Why are the new cabinet members still not sworn in?
Home/Opinion, politics/Why are the new cabinet members still not sworn in?
It is two full working days and a weekend since Pres. Adama Barrow announced the appointment of a new vice president and several ministers yet until today Monday July 2 none of the new appointees were sworn-in. Meantime all of the former holders of those offices have vacated their offices and the new appointees have assumed their new positions. This is a clear violation of the rule of law that must not allow to perpetuate.
The Oaths Act states in Section 3 that certain holders of an office cannot assume their positions and perform the functions of that office without first taking the prescribed oath to be administered by the appropriate person. The vice president and ministers fall under the category of those kinds of holders of office hence they must take their prescribed oath of office immediately they were appointed.
The prescribed oath for the vice president and minsters are the Oath of Allegiance, Oath for the Due Execution of Office and Oath of Secrecy to be administered by the president. Section 6 of the Oaths Act states that failure to take the prescribed oath means such a person shall not enter the office or will be disqualified to hold that office. It is therefore necessary that when a person is appointed to such an office, he or she immediately takes the prescribed oath because there cannot be a vacuum in leadership and responsibility in the functions of the government.
Why therefore should Pres. Barrow appoint persons to be vice president and ministers and yet fail to immediately swear them in so that they would have the legal authority and power to act in their new portfolio? So long as these people are not sworn-on then they lack the legal authority to perform the functions of their new offices. If they do then they are acting without legal authority which is an abuse of power.
The Minister of Justice must provide the necessary and urgent advice to the president to ensure that he acts within the law. The Gambia is governed based on and according to the constitution and other laws of the country and not based on the whims and caprices of Adama Barrow. If Pres. Barrow knows that he cannot immediately swear in a particular person upon appointing that person then let him appoint someone else who could be immediately sworn-in or wait until his preferred person is available to be sworn-in.
The law is meant to be enforced and not to wait for any citizen. All citizens are subject to the law and no one is above or below the law. Hence public officers must be seen to abide by the law and not to violate it. The National Assembly must call the attention of the president to realize that his decisions and actions must always be in line with the law and nothing else.


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Posted on 02/18/2013 by Sue
With widespread bipartisan support from government and community leaders throughout the state, the Florida Senate Committee on Children, Families and Elder Affairs will hear the "Families First" bill on Tuesday, February 19. The bill, introduced by committee chair Senator Eleanor Sobel (D), would allow gay couples and unmarried Floridians access to key legal protections for their families.
Nearly half of Floridians already live in a community that has a domestic partnership registry, including Palm Beach, Pinellas County, Volusia County, Orange County, Broward County, Miami-Dade County, Key West, Tampa, Orlando, Gainesville, Tavares, Clearwater and North Miami.
A statewide law would ensure all Floridians access to protections. Leaders who have voiced their support include Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer (D), St Petersburg Mayor Bill Foster (R), Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn (D), Kissimmee Commissioner Cheryl Grieb (D), Orange County Commissioner Jennifer Thompson (R), Gainesville Mayor Craig Lowe (D), Orange County Comptroller Martha Haynie (R), Miami Beach Mayor Matti Herrera Bower (D). Former elected leaders are weighing in too. Former Orange County Commissioner John Martinez (R), former Gulfport City Council member Bob Worthington (R) and former Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti.
The Families First bill will simplify the process for providing important legal protections to domestic partners, no matter where they live in the state.
"In the past year, Florida has seen a wave of support for domestic partner registries – affecting both gay and straight couples – through the passage of legislation in numerous municipalities," said Nadine Smith, Executive Director of Equality Florida. "It is vital that there is a cohesive, statewide policy in place, eliminating obstacles and hardships that no one would want inflicted upon their own family."
The hearing comes six years to the day that Janice Langbehn's life partner of 18 years, Lisa Pond, died at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital. Janice was denied access to visit Lisa, who had collapsed as the couple and their four children prepared to leave for a cruise.
The case drew national attention and eventually prompted President Obama to issue an Executive Memo requiring hospitals that receive Medicaid funding to treat domestic partners as family. The President called Janice from Air Force One to announce the change. That memo makes creating a means to establish a domestic partnership all the more urgent. (In 2011 the President presented Janice, a self-described "accidental activist," with the Presidential Citizens Medal).
Contact: Nadine Smith, Executive Director, Equality Florida
(727) 386-8123 / [email protected]


Survivors who hid on of a top of a refrigerator say the Reina nightclub shooter spent 30 minutes wiping his AK-47 free of fingerprints before changing clothes.
ISTANBUL // The survivors huddled atop a giant industrial freezer in silence as the ISIL gunman entered the nightclub kitchen. Wiping his Kalashnikov free of fingerprints, he did not see them as he changed clothes and put on a Santa hat.
He had fired 180 rounds in seven minutes and killed 39 people. After smearing himself with their blood, he left the kitchen and blended into the crowd of survivors being taken out of the building.
There was a traffic jam when he arrived an hour earlier, so he walked the last few hundred metres to the Reina club, one of the most glamorous nightspots in Istanbul where the New Year's Eve revelries were in full swing. His AK-47 concealed beneath his coat, he pulled the weapon out only when he was within easy range of the club's unarmed guards.
Ali Unal, co-owner of the Reina, was smoking outside and talking on his mobile phone. It was 1.20am and Mr Unal thought the gunfire was New Year fireworks. Then bullets bounced off a heater in the entrance.
After killing a guard and a bystander, the attacker tossed a stun grenade and entered the club unhindered. An hour of terror followed, as the surveillance video and survivor accounts later showed.
Sprawling along the narrow strait that links Europe and Asia, the three-storey Reina had five restaurants and curtained terraces dropping down to the edge of the Bosphorus Strait. When the assailant entered, it was packed with about 600 people.
Starting from the upper terraces, he opened fire as he crossed blue-lighted dance floors pulsating with rave music. Some revellers fled to the seaside terraces and grabbed the long grey curtains to drop into the water below. Others sought hiding places. Many simply dropped to the ground as bodies fell over them, praying they would not be spotted.
Sabri Ozturk, one of the club's restaurant managers, had brought his wife and 19-year-old son to keep him company for New Year. He dropped to the floor and shouted to them to do the same.
They stayed that way for about an hour. "Then the noise stopped, but is the terrorist inside? Is he going to detonate a bomb? You start thinking: He should just blow it up so it can be over. That's the state you are in," Mr Ozturk said.
Security experts said the methodical attack was carried out by an experienced killer who emptied four machine gun cartridges in rapid succession, with magazines tied to each other for quicker action.
"I'm not just talking about a training camp, I'm talking he fought," said security analyst Michael Horowitz.
Photos taken inside the club show most people were shot with deadly precision in the upper torso and some at point blank range on the floor.
"I was shot when I was already on the ground. He was shooting people that he had already shot," said William Raak, an American who was wounded.
Alaa Abd El Hai, a 30-year-old Arab Israeli dentist who had come to the club with three friends, was on the dance floor when the gunman opened fire. The music stopped.
Sensing the shooter nearby, she crawled 15 metres to the kitchen with several others, searching for a hiding place. They tried a storage room but it was locked. Then they saw the freezer. The space above could hold them all, but was too high for some to reach. The men climbed up first, then reached down for the women. Ms El Hai is not sure how many crammed into the small space but she recalls there were two Germans, two Iranians, two Turks and an Egyptian woman. Four rounds later, the gunman ran out of ammunition. Peering through a curtain, the Egyptian woman saw him enter the kitchen with the weapon pointed at a woman's head.
He spent 30 minutes wiping the AK-47 free of fingerprints then left it there, along with his coat. He changed clothes, put on a Santa hat and blended into the panicked crowd – smearing himself with blood on his chest, and limping.
Ms El Hai later learnt that her friend, 18-year-old Layan Nasser, was among the dead.
When police stormed the building 40 minutes after the massacre began, they made everyone put their hands up. When the club was finally emptied at around 2.30am, the shooter was among them. He hopped into a taxi unnoticed and remains at large.
According to government-linked Turkish media, the taxi driver said the man spoke on his mobile phone in Turkish and had no money for the fare. Later, back in the club kitchen, investigators found 500 Turkish lira in his coat pocket.